Yehudi Wyner is an American composer, pianist, conductor, and music educator. Wyner, who grew up in New York City, was raised in a musical family. His father, Lazar Weiner, was an eminent composer of Yiddish art songs. Wyner attended Juilliard, Yale, and Harvard. He has written music in a variety of genres, including compositions for orchestra, chamber ensembles, solo voice, and solo instruments, as well as theatrical music and settings of the Jewish liturgy. Among his best-known works are the Friday Evening Service for cantor and chorus, and On This Most Voluptuous Night for soprano and... chamber ensemble. Wyner taught for fourteen years at Yale, where he was head of the composition faculty. He has also taught at SUNY Purchase, Cornell, Brandeis, and Harvard. In 2006, Wyner won the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his piano concerto Chiavi in Mano.
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